Add New Graphics - How?

Richie · Post by **Richie** » October 20th, 2006, 4:19 am

I have some Lord of the Rings graphics that someone made for Wesnoth. How do you add them to the game? I can't figure it out for the life of me.

Post by **zookeeper** » October 20th, 2006, 8:32 am

Richie wrote:How do you add them to the game?

Go to your Wesnoth/images/ directory, overwrite some image you find there with your LotR image. You then have it in the game.

Or you can try to tell us what exactly you want to do, since "adding graphics into the game" doesn't make any sense as such, really.

Richie · Post by **Richie** » October 20th, 2006, 1:46 pm

Sorry for the unclear explanation. I want them to appear in the game.

I think what you said hit the nail right on the head. I use Ubuntu Linux. Does anybody happen to know where the Wesnoth images directory is?

martenzo · Post by **martenzo** » October 20th, 2006, 2:58 pm

Well, there's two solutions for it really.

1. overwrite the wesnoth standard in the /usr/local/wesnoth/image/ (or something like that)
Note that you'll have to reinstall wesnoth if you ant the original back

2. Make a custom era and use it. Consult the wiki for that, it's in the "Create" part of the site.

fyo · Post by **fyo** » October 20th, 2006, 3:52 pm

If you compiled Wesnoth on Ubuntu using default instructions, the wesnoth directory is located here:

/usr/share/games/wesnoth

If you are playing the packaged version available from the Ubuntu repositories (1.0, last I checked), I strongly recommend compiling the latest version (1.1.11 == 1.2rc1). I played 1.0 first and there are SO many improvements in 1.1.11 that I barely even know where to begin with describing the changes. The game is completely rebalanced, almost all graphics have been significantly upgraded (sounds may be as well, but I don't play with sounds), opening the load dialog is much, much faster, at least a few episodes in the mainline campaigns have been completely revamped and a hoarde of bugs have been fixed.

Richie · Post by **Richie** » October 23rd, 2006, 11:00 pm

I'm a little out of it tonight (started a new job), so please pardon my very n00bish question. When I try and move the Lord of the Rings image files into the Wesnoth images folder, it doesn't let me. I tried as root and through the terminal. Any suggestions?

fyo · Post by **fyo** » October 23rd, 2006, 11:57 pm

"it doesn't let me"... what does it say? And what, exactly, did you type?

The cp command doesn't include directories by default (unlike mv), so you would have to add -R if you were doing something like:

cp -R LotR/images/ /usr/share/games/wesnoth/images/

Post by **freim** » October 24th, 2006, 2:07 pm

Richie wrote:I'm a little out of it tonight (started a new job), so please pardon my very n00bish question. When I try and move the Lord of the Rings image files into the Wesnoth images folder, it doesn't let me. I tried as root and through the terminal. Any suggestions?

You're not supposed to manually mess around with the files under /usr/ anyway. This is bad practice and I do not recommend it. Apart from /usr/local/ this is the territory of the package manager. You're probably getting an error since only the root user has access and my guess is that you tried to copy with your normal user account.

If you want to change stuff like this I recommend compiling your own version using ./configure -prefix=/home/yourusername/somewhere and mess around with that one.

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